The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-29
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Over four hundred members OF the
Roller family attended the reunion at
Tyrone. Penn.
The first royal letter was written by
Henry v. to the Bishop Of Durham.
February 10, 14lS.
The total cost of the Suck canal was
less than 800, OO0, 600. So far the Pan
anna canal has cost 1915, 0O0, 600.
The first advertisements known Of in
England were in the shape of small
bills affixed to the doors of St Paurs
Church.
Miss Olivia Cobb, an Athens, Ga,
belle, IL just out of her teens and has
already declined more than thirty OF
fers Of marriage.
A wild deer ran about the streets OF
Thorpe. Wis. for some time one morn
ing last week. Its life was protected
by the game law.
The women of the Presbyterian
Church Of this country has raised
during the past sixteen years about
81, 150, 600 for missions
The Shasta (Cal.) Courier says: A
man who spells God with a y" and
county and California with ''k" is
not fit for postmaster, but there is one
such in this county.
Gov. Gordon is tho rival kisser to
Gen. Sherman. He recently kissed all
the inmates of q young ladies' sem
mary, beginning with the cook and
working up to the head Of the estab-
lishment. an old lady of 63.
A Pittsburg street car driver says
that his horses suffer severely on Sum
days from the flies, because on that
day there are so few horses on the
streets that those that draw the cars
are about the only ones on which the
flies can dine.
The Gear is said to find much solace
these days in fishing. spending hours
at time on the edge of his ponds.
Now if the Nihilists could manage to
have him fish up a bomb some day
they would spoil what little fun there
is left for the poor Gar.
There is q mule on the property of
the Proctor Coal company. near Jel-
leo. Tenn, giving nearly two gallons
of milk per day. She Is MIXED regu-
larly night and morning by the stable
boy. She has been milking for two
| weeks and bids fair to beat the Jersey
record.
Kate Shelley, the young girl who
| few years ago saved q passenger train
from destruction at a wrecked railroad
bridge near Henry creek, Iowa, is now
visiting the east for the first time.
| She wears a massive gold medal,
| the gift of the Iowa state legislature,
| and enjoys life pass on any railroad
in the land.
George Vandyke, the lumber king
II
/ wears ago was earning his living by
| chopping in the woods in Coos county
! at $50 a month and board. He has
recently erected an elegant residence
at Lancaster for the use of his mother
and sister. He Is unmarried and Is 50
years of age.
Charles Summers private secretary,
Arnold B. johnson, speaks of the great
statesman's sweet tooth in q current
magazine article. Sumner was es-
pecially fond of chocolate creams. and
held that as long as he could eat candy
his digestion was in good order. He
never smoked. and never tasted of
whisky but once
Capt. Tom Brabson, a well-known
farmer living on the French Broad
river near Boyd's creek. Tenn, Is the
owner of a white mule IS years of age.
The venerable beast was kept in the
harness until two years ago, when he
was retired on pension. He has
been in possession of the mule for
thirty-seven years and can vouch for
his age.
The prediction for tea over COTE
or chocolate by the British public i
shown by the report of the Coffee Tav
ern company, which is contained Il
the report Just published of the roya
commission for the Colonial and In
dian exhibition. The company solG
during the exhibition 559, GOO cups o
tea, 1S5. 600 cups of coffee, and 81, 50'
cups of chocolate.
On opening the will of a Yves
Chester, Penn, lady after death it wa
found that she had made ample pro
: visions for the maintenance of he
faithful friend-her dog-having lef
7 legacy of 81 800, the interest O
which was to be used for his support
| | and after his death the $500 was t.
go to the st. Peters Great Vale,
8 Protestant Episcopal church.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is about fort
. years of age and worth certainly $75
OO00, 900, perhaps 1925. 900, 900. He
= a tremendous worker, and his friend
fear he is injuring his health by hi
assiduous attention to the details O
his business. It seems strange t
think of man working himself sicl
when he already has larger incom
: than he can by any possibility get ri
OF. Human nature il queer thing.
The English are FESTIVE at the sad
ding of German princelings upol
them. The following il the common
by Truth on the presence Of the Hes
o sian fly in England: This Hessian e,
has been with US for long while, AM
Q the insect has been for some tim
making its presence disagreeably fel
> both in the army and the navy. It
voracious and persistent fly. and th
only way to deal with it is to stamp
: out
Prof. Albert r. Leeds, Of Hoboken
!, n. J., recently told the chemistry sec
i ton of the Associated American
0 Science-Advancers that out of ever
one hundred infants fed on mother
: milk, statistics showed that abou
eight die at the end of the first year
out of one hundred wet-nursed eigh
teen die, and out of one hundred fed Of
"'infant food" fifty-one die. He ad
. vocates the use of cows milk, dilutet
4 to the standard of human milk.
Oliver johnson correets the state
ment that ''Uncle Toms Cabin" wa
written In Andover. and declares tina
8 Brunswick, Me-, was the place, wher
: the authors husband was at the time
professor in Bowdoin college. I'M
i authority for this, !" he says. ''is lad,
sitting before me as write, to WHOM
Mrs. Stowe herself read the majo
!, portion of the great novel while it wa
yet in manuscript. She was residen
Of Brunswick down to the time whel
a the work appeared In book FORM"
Armand Carrel, to whom monu
r | ment has just been erected at Rouen
had stormy career. He was advent
f urous from the moment that he left 81
Cyr until he was shot by Emil de CT
' rardin, who swore on the TOMB of hi
adversary never to fight duel again
Q When fighting in Spain In the Foreigl
Liberal Legion, which was compose